'The cold war is over. In Russia a reformist President fights to control a disintegrating empire. The American President is poised triumphantly to usher in a new world order.
'But now a secret they both believed was buried in the past threatens to destroy them both.
'Laura Bailey has been obsessed by the fate of her lover, listed as missing in action in Vietnam. Her dangerous search for the truth involves Bing Connick, an embittered war correspondent, as they pick up long-dead trails through Asia, Russia, the icy wastes of Kazakhstan ending in Lithuania as the Soviet Empire begins to collapse.
'As Laura and Bing come close to exposing both governments' betrayals, the KGB and CIA assassins are ready to strike.' (Publication summary)